The madness has begun. It’s Art Basel Miami Beach, and in what has now become a time-honored tradition for almost a decade, the racing about, the scramble to see, haggle, and buy commences. So let’s start with a guide to two fairs opening tomorrow morning: Scope and Art Miami, in Midtown Miami. While there are […]

Did you know that almost every concrete structure in Miami includes locally mined, ground up fossilized coral and marine limestone? Such an integral element has gone unrecognized for far too long, according to a marine biologist and a musician, who double as video artists. Starting next week during Art Basel Miami Beach, the duo who […]

A couple of public art works have blown in, or crawled up, to Miami Beach in time for Art Basel, one of which will be here to stay, the other will recede. The permanent installation comes courtesy of an artist known for his public works, New York-based Brian Tolle, who created a water-movement piece under […]

The most stunning and riveting photographs in Bruce Weber’s series on Haitian Miami, which just opened at North Miami’s MoCA, are the black-and-white portraits. The expressions captured on the faces, especially of the young girls, form the storyline of “Haiti/Little Haiti,” revealing so much of the life of this community. Those faces are at times smiling, […]

The Adrienne Arsht Center continues forging its successful path to becoming the town square for artistic programing — not just for performing arts, but all disciplines — with the unveiling of the year-long exhibit, “The Lincoln Center List Collection in Miami.” Over 30 prints from some of the most important hands in the last half-century […]

Last seen here at the Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts gallery two years ago, Michael Scoggins and his child-like scribblings and drawings return to the gallery, for “#1 Fan.” His appearance is always a highlight for the gallery. Scoggins’ literal signature is lettering and sentences written as though a child painstakingly crafted them. The underlying themes, […]

As galleries get ready for Art Basel, they are already putting their best faces forward this week, like at the French gallery Hélène Lamarque in Wynwood, where two international shows are being unveiled. The first is from French feminist Orlan, called “Self-Hybridizations.” It’s a photographic exploration — with the artist as the inevitable focal point […]

There are two must stops on Saturday  night, Nov. 6, for anyone serious about their interest in art: the Miami Art Museum‘s unveiling of a solo retrospective from one of America’s significant painters of the latter part of the 20th century, Susan Rothenberg; and Locust Projects annual Smash and Grab art auction. We’ll start with […]

So there are some electrical boxes down at 3rd Street and Washington Avenue in Miami Beach. They’ve never been very attractive, and on top of that they’ve been tagged and desecrated numerous times over the years. The city decided that turning them into a public art work might just be a good way to brighten […]

It’s progress when cool and quality galleries are opened by apprentices of established ones. Such is the case with Gallery Diet, whose owner and director, Nina Johnson, was assistant director at Bernice Steinbaum. The latest entry: The Christopher Miro Gallery, unveiled this fall by Miro, former assistant director at Fredric Snitzer. While art outlets from […]

Writing about the visual arts can be a suspect exercise — how can you convey in words what is being said with image? When trying to describe abstract painting, the ground gets even shakier. But here’s an attempt, about the exhibit up at the Center for Visual Communication, “Abstract Miami.” Abstract art is the opposite […]